Classes

We offer Tools for a Lifetime of Happiness

Our classes are fun and to significantly develop the children’s ability to build healthy relationships with themselves and their peers. Parenting programs are designed to help parents learn how to model and teach these skills.

Rituals for holidays and daily living for building emotional intelligence

Guiding emotional intelligence in older children

Creating an emotionally safe home for children to thrive

What does happy parents, happy children really mean to you

Building social and environmental consciousness/responsibility in children

Currently being held at:
Full Joy of Parenting Program available at Narmata Centre July 25-31, 2011
Wolfe School Nov 2010, next module at Wolfe School Spring 2011

FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS

Teacher Training – How to Use Drama to Teach Emotional Intelligence

3 hour session including curriculum samples

School Visioning and Planning

Strategic Planning Sessions to create the kind of school you want to become. Nancy is an experienced facilitator with many references in the nonprofit and business community leading organizations to set and achieve exciting and inspiring goals.

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

Joyfilled Productions offers Friendship /Emotional and Social Development Classes for For Children through Drama and Play

These are delivered in classrooms, homes (for groups of children), lunchtime or after school programs. They can include small child led performances for training younger children. Available within greater Vancouver to schedule email nancyb@joyfilledproductions.org

Play approach for the Kindergarten/Gr 1 children we use puppet shows, experiments, visuals and drama.

For the Gr 1 to Gr 7 program we use drama as well as performances if that is of interest to the group.

Each individual module is designed for about 1 hour. The sessions can be customized for a group of children or delivered in a classroom.

The focus is on building trusting relationships. With 50-60% of children age 9-12 feel they have a friend they can talk to and trust. When does this happen and how can we learn to create better friendship and relationship skills?

Term 1: Welcoming and Emotional Safety – foundation for great acting and friendships

Getting your stress level down and helping others keep theirs down – stage fright and calm on stage (or before tests, new friends) incorporate into warm up with breathing exercises

Lying or truthful, building trust

Issues in module one we are working on addressing: Cliques, remembering to welcome each other, giving them a personal sense of when they are welcoming, when they are not, how to assert themselves in healthy ways. how does this impact drama, friendships,

Term 2: Awareness of Self and Others (empathy and this including caring behaviours)

Awareness and getting to know your emotions – labeling emotions well

Choices on how we express our more challenging feelings.

What to do with uncomfortable emotions mad/frustrated/jealous

How we can change our feelings if we want to

How to tell if we are stressed and how to lower stress

Empathy – what it is (listening with warm curiousity), acceptance

Empathy stage 2 – resonance

Issues in module two we are working on addressing: Helping children feel safe having emotions, the wisdom of emotions/body and knowing how to be with them in ways that are safe for themselves and others. Also helping them understand their own choices/power. Knowing what to do when a friend is struggling.

“It’s healing medicine and helps children find a resilient part inside themselves.”

—Janie Brown, ED of Callanishe Healing Society R.N., M.S.N.

"Parents and children will experience being enveloped in warm joy and soft loving energy."

—Dr. Cathy Wilder, PhD, Family Counsellor

The CDs are absolutely wonderful. My daughter has been listening to DreamChild as part of her night time routine for almost five years. I have a son now and a niece that I wanted to share the night time story with. I love the story. It has inspired our imaginations and connects us by heart and mind every night.

—Judy Gardner Teacher and Mother

"I was a sleep deprived mom. Now I am getting more sleep as I leave it on repeat all night long to soothe them back to sleep when they wake up."